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This is kind of cool, and it just takes a few seconds to dl.

From the TECH Chronicles in today's SF Chronicle:

Stumbling into Internet Explorer

StumbleUpon, a tiny company that came from Calgary and has grown to 1 million registered users just on the Firefox browser alone, has finally got its technology ready to work on the more popular Internet Explorer browser.

The "stumble" button, which allows people to get that old feeling of randomly surfing the Web - yet which has the Web 2.0 vibe of community, in that the sites served up have all been rated and recommended by the StumbleUpon community - will be available for download for IE as of Tuesday morning.

It actually had been available earlier, but an IE update caused a glitch that required a month's worth of tweaking by a developer back in Calgary.

Life has been something of a whirlwind for StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp and his partners Geoff Smith and Justin LaFrance. Camp, 27, was a grad student in Calgary, toiling away for the past five years on StumbleUpon. Then Silicon Valley engineer Brad O'Neill stumbled upon the site, and persuaded the founders to move to San Francisco and take a little under $2 million in angel funding.

Now he's got a dream team of investors, including Google board member Ram Shriram (a former Amazon.com exec), serial entrepreneur Ariel Poler (of Topica, LinkExchange and Odeo, among others), Lotus founder Mitch Kapor and angel investor Ron Conway.

The service is ad-supported, but the ads are simply Web pages served up in the course of stumbling, so it's not intrusive. And it's now even easier to use. "We've got 75-year-old grandmothers who stumble regularly," Camp said. "You don't see that so much on blogs."

This is the first site I stumbled upon: http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.html

Edit: Wow! Here's the second: http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
Just drag & click.

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Been using this on firefox for a while now...amazing when you just don't want to start that paper :D


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Frozen Northerner Wrote:
Been using this on firefox for a while now...amazing when you just don't want to start that paper :D


Yeah- wouldn't this be great when sitting on the throne, instead of reading that Playboy that's been in there for a couple decades now?

Sounds: http://www.findsounds.com/types.html

Edit: Where's the pron???

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oops

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I like to tell myself that the reason why I'm frequently the last post in many threads is because I have made the definitive response and further discussion would be meaningless....yes, that's what it is :ashamed:

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What's the oops? That's for Firefox, this is for IE.

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That's for Firefox, this is for IE.


ewwww.


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What's the oops? That's for Firefox, this is for IE.


exactly.

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